Messages By: holistichell

I would like to know more information on this Rick Ross.  Please post a web site that one might learn from?

Thank you

I am not upset with the people who were dragged into cults as children or born into them. I understand why they are there, they don't anything different. Whe I say I want to slap people, I mean the older people who have cognitive thinking skills, supposedly. What the hell are you people thinking?

Watching the shows about Cults brought back so many memories.  There are also main stream religious cults.  I grew up in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church, which was a "closet" cult. The women are taught the man is the head of the house, and the men are not to be questioned. The minister where I was going rebuked me for having a "honey do" list for my husband on his vacation.  When I spoke back, laughed saying "he wasn't on vacation but on strike  form his company", the minister  was not happy with me at all.

I am fifty-seven years old and have been in therapy since 1987 off and on.  The counselor I have now said he would diagnose my condition as "post traumaic stress syndrome".  I raised my daughters in this church until I finally could not stand it any longer, much to my parents anger.  They have also been traumatized.  There is so much more that happened.  I have always wondered how many others raised in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church are having the some struggles I am having.  I try so hard to get over it, but I can't seem to go on.  I have had to quit work because I can hardly leave the house because I feel of no value.  Remember, we women are of no value.  I told my mother two years ago that she never hug, kiss or told me she loved me and she said she didn't know she had too.  When I was eighteen, I had a breast tumor and my father said God was punishing me.  I also had some problems in my marriage in the late '80s and my father said he would rather I live in an abusive relationship than embarrass him in fornt of his church.

I'm a 23 year old female.  I am a stay at home mom of a little boy and a little girl. =)  That's why I responded to you, if I believed my child was in a cult I would be very worried about it as well.  When you mentioned that it was a New Age cult I responded because New Age is not a cult, in the way that most people define it.  The word "cult" is really any group of people that get together to worship something, so really, every religion is a cult.   

I know that many people define it as brainwashing and there are definilty some groups that do that, but as we saw in this show, it can be a Christian group as well.  Those claiming to be Christian, anyway.  That's why we have to be careful with labeling people and what they believe.  I'm a Pagan, that's why I felt the need to interject, because what I believe is definitly not brainwashing. You did say that your child wasn't having any say in what she does, and that there is always someone there telling her what to do and what to think, and THAT is  brainwashing for sure.  I am free to do what I want, to think and believe as I want.  What I believe as been with me since I was a child, I didn't know it had a name until 5 years ago, it's not only something that I believe, but I feel it as well.

I hope this answers your question.  I welcome all questions and am happy that you asked.  =)  I hope that your search for your daughter continues.  Don't give up.  She may be needing you.

Take care.